Birds In Isolation
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Expert Study in the Solomo[?]
Honiara, Oct. 1.1
DR. A. J. CAIN, Demonstrator • Animal Taxonomy at the UiT versity of Oxford, left Honias. on September 30 for Britain.
Dr. Cain, with Mr. I. Galbraiti also from the University of Oxfoio spent several months in ti Guadalcanal bush, studying bic life. He is a lecturer on the class fication and evolution of animas: and the expedition has been i vestigating the variations whiir occur when birds of a known spec:o: are isolated for many years in smrr communities on remote islands, .
Mr. Galbraith will remain in ti Solomons for some months ae plans to visit Ugi, Ulawa, and S 8 Cristoval Islands in the Eastoct Solomons. if Dr. C. E. Beeby (Director of EcbJ cation in New Zealand), with ML' Bedby, went on from Westej Samoa in September to Eastoj Samoa and, as guests of Educate Director Dr. Herbert S. Spenon and Mrs. Spencer, they examimi with interest the education syste<J in the American Territory.